Col, this is my sixth season watching the show and I never felt that was the case with these guys. Bourdain even commented on it. Last night sort of shook that foundation a bit. The only saving grace was reading Colicchio's blog, where he seemed genuinely contrite and admitted if they were privy to all the info that was shown on the airing of the episode the judge's decision would have been different.

tifosi77 wrote:Col, this is my sixth season watching the show and I never felt that was the case with these guys. Bourdain even commented on it. Last night sort of shook that foundation a bit. The only saving grace was reading Colicchio's blog, where he seemed genuinely contrite and admitted if they were privy to all the info that was shown on the airing of the episode the judge's decision would have been different.

That makes sense. Josie obviously deserves to go home, but how would the judges know that based on what they saw. Wish Kristin had said more, but I admire her for how she handled it. Hope she makes it back.

I mean, yeah I'm glad Josie's gone and all. But the real highlight of the show was watching how blitzed the judges were. Hugh Acheson said in his blog that it looked like they had spent the day watching Scooby Doo reruns and eating Cheetos. And the fact that they deferred Judges' Table to the next day is..... telling.

But seriously..... how as a chef do you get to the point where you are making fried chicken on a national TV show and you de-bone the pieces? That's a fundamental eff up of galactic proportions, and I think Brooke is very lucky that Josie served up grease bombs.

The Quickfire was to make a dish to impress a sushi chef. But it didn't say you had to make sushi. I wouldn't have made sushi. Not for Katsuya (which, with different kanji, would be translated as "cutlet shop"), and not on television. I would have done the best non-sushi dish I had in my arsenal and hoped he liked it. But when his group comment was "You all worked very hard", that's code for "Your sushi was weak".

Just a couple weeks ago, I felt like Brooke and Kristin were nearly a lock for the finals... then Kristin went and fell on her sword and Brooke deboned her fried chicken. On top of that, Mustache boy started ending up in the top on challenges which annoys the crap out of me. At least Josie is finally gone...

I would not bet against the final three being Brooke, El Mustashio Lame-o, and Kristin after cooking her way back in through LCK. Seriously, of the remaining chefs who do you think would beat her 1-on-1?

Honestly... I keep forgetting about Stefan. I actually don't hate him for some reason, even though I feel like I should cuz he's kind of an ass. I would rather see him win than Herr Mustache, that's for damn sure.

The Quickfire was to make a dish to impress a sushi chef. But it didn't say you had to make sushi. I wouldn't have made sushi. Not for Katsuya (which, with different kanji, would be translated as "cutlet shop"), and not on television. I would have done the best non-sushi dish I had in my arsenal and hoped he liked it. But when his group comment was "You all worked very hard", that's code for "Your sushi was weak".

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Hahaha….I love the pun on his name. Also agree that he was being very Japanese in "complimenting" their hard work. Oops.

I mean, yeah I'm glad Josie's gone and all. But the real highlight of the show was watching how blitzed the judges were. Hugh Acheson said in his blog that it looked like they had spent the day watching Scooby Doo reruns and eating Cheetos. And the fact that they deferred Judges' Table to the next day is..... telling.

But seriously..... how as a chef do you get to the point where you are making fried chicken on a national TV show and you de-bone the pieces? That's a fundamental eff up of galactic proportions, and I think Brooke is very lucky that Josie served up grease bombs.

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The drunk judging was absolutely, bar-none, the best part of the whole episode. I can't imagine how the chefs were taking it, knowing that their judges were clearly smashed out of their minds.

My curiosity piqued when I heard Josh say that he was going to make noodles out of scallops. Okay, that's inventive. The technique has been around for a decade, but it's well outside his comfort zone, for sure. And, as it turns out, well outside his knowledge zone as well.

The moment he said he was using gelatin to set the protein, I for-real lol'd. Two things you need to know about gelatin: 1) it's water soluble, and 2) it breaks down when heated. His 'pasta' never set, so I have no idea how intended to prepare his noodles. But I do know that the scallops were raw when he tried to 'noodlize' them. And I'm willing to bet plan was to cook the finished noodles in hot water....... which would have led to him making a very liquidy scallop soup.

I was impressed with the way he recovered to make 'scrambled' scallops, but I was really hoping I'd get to see him try and cook his gelatin noodles.

Imagine if Sheldon had taken scallops and bacon... at least 2 chefs used those ingredients... Hell, I would have taken bacon just to screw with Josh. (not that I would make it on Top Chef, much less make the final five, but I digress)